***But what about the stuff that we were using up until the very end? Hopefully we took it with us.
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Apparently we destroyed it before we left...
US military destroyed some of its own weapons on the way out of Afghanistan
(snip)The general (CENTCOM Commander), who announced the end of the U.S.’s twenty-year war in Afghanistan on Monday, explained that military forces destroyed dozens of MRAPs, Humvees, and aircraft before they left shortly after midnight Tuesday morning local time, which was President Joe Biden’s self-imposed withdrawal deadline.
Instead, much of the equipment the U.S. had provided to the Afghan forces fell into the Taliban’s hands but not the 70 MRAPs and 27 Humvees, both of which are military vehicles, and 73 aircraft they left inoperable.
“Those aircraft will never fly again when we left,” McKenzie said of the aircraft. “They’ll never be able to be operated by anyone.”
The U.S. left the C-RAM defense system, which prevented an attack on Monday, in place until the very end.
“Our C-RAMs were very effective in engaging the two rockets that did fall on the airfield,” McKenzie explained. “We believe they probably kept them from doing more significant damage. We elected to keep those systems in operation up until the last minute. It’s a complex procedure, complex and time-intensive procedure to break down those systems. So we demilitarized those systems so that they’ll never be used again. We felt it was more important to protect our forces than bring the systems back.”
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The mood those soldiers who did the work must have been in, safest thing for the Taliban would be to cordon everything off and just abandon it.
MIL Dirty Tricks can get plumb down-and-dirty.
We need to be remotely disabling all the other milspec stuff we left for the Afghans - meaning remotely from a squadron of B-52s out of Kansas with 2000 lb blockbuster bombs. But we won’t.